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If the motion alleges that the status quo will change without relief, a judge will always grant it unless the enjoined party can prove the injunction will cause damage.

With respect to allegations of record destruction (even if frivolous) there can be no real injury from granting the injunction, especially with respect to public records which are presumed to be available to the public.

I’d like to see the motion as well, but just like the complaints filed, I wouldn’t trust any allegation made in it.

You can’t get a defamation claim from pleadings in a court case–there’s a special type of immunity that applies.

So, lawyers are basically free to slander the hell out of the other side in pleadings unless they go so incredibly far that the judge sanctions them for it (which never happens, and especially never happens in front of Mike Caldwell).

If you people who have an axe to grind against Gasser were smart, you wouldn’t be picking on him for entry of the injunction or the salacious allegations in the motion that secured it.

Instead you should be asking why his $20k retainer, hotshot lawyer didn’t get reciprocal prohibitions against Lukasik, or even better, get an order that all the records be deposited in a safe repository (corporate America uses Iron Mountain and similar vendors).

Keep in mind that the court and the attorneys have now seen the video recorded camera footage covering the time leading up to the turnover of seats and immediately following.

I haven’t seen much news on that (which makes one wonder if it is now also evidence in a criminal investigation?), but you can’t analyze what the court is doing with these injunction/TROs without giving weight to what everybody beyond the bar in that courtroom knows but isn’t yet talking about.